¿Qué significa ser programador? (What's It Really Like to Be a Coder?)

Compares and contrasts the plants, animals, and indigenous peoples of the world's rainforests by continent, exploring secrets of survival in the forest and examining how human exploitation threatens these diverse habitats.

In graphic novel format, follows the adventures of Max Axiom as he explains the science behind light.

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...

¿Sientes que últimamente se te olvidan las cosas o que no puedes recordar los nombres? ¿Te cuesta a veces encontrar las palabras correctas para expresarte? No te preocupes, este libro es perfecto para ti. Con el paso de los años comienza a decaer el rendimiento físico e intelectual; es la evolución normal de toda persona. Sin embargo, no tienes por qué resignarte: igual que al ejercitar el cuerpo combatimos el envejecimiento físico, al entrenar nuestra mente rejuvenecemos el cerebro y fortalecemos sus funciones. Gracias a los sencillos ejercicios que contiene este libro, preparados...